It is written in the American constitution that all men are created equal, but was that and is that still really the case? Society has relatively made leaps and bounds since the Civil War for equality, but many people have forgotten or refused to think about just how extreme the divide was between black people and the white society was in the 1800’s ,and how racism and hatred was rooted deep in the social culture back then. The pre-civil war era was a period in which the American society often pressured others into thinking and acting in ways they seemed were moral or good. Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tried to show these aspects indirectly to show readers just how misguided society was back then. Twain uses the Mississippi